[lit-ideas] Re: The Devil's Dictionary

on 3/27/05 12:27 AM, Mirembe Nantongo at nantongo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Allow me to recommend Ambrose Bierce's "Unabridged Devil's Dictionary" to
> those who do not yet possess this valuable reference work. I myself have just
> acquired it after an extended period (several years) of meaning to acquire it.


I too have gone through such a period and now, thanks to your prod, have
ordered a copy.

Different subjects:

I think that if there was a golden age of reading poetry, it was immediately
before and after the First World War.  Fussell overstates how literary
soldiers were in that war, but everyone and his mother and P.G. Wodehouse's
brother all produced slim volumes of verse in that era, volumes for which
punters paid good money.  No doubt many of these were read.

Thank you for organizing Lit-Ideas poetry month.  Put me down for an open
date in the final week.

David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon

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